Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
A join-index is a data structure used for processing join queries in databases. Join-indices use precomputation techniques to speed up online query processing and are useful for da...
Abstract—This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not conside...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy...
Declustering techniques reduce query response time through parallel I/O by distributing data among multiple devices. Except for a few cases it is not possible to find declusterin...
This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...